“This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.”
– Alice Paul
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.”
– Jon Meacham
“It’s very hard for a woman in comedy. It’s hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.”
– Margaret Cho
“The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.”
– Zsa Zsa Gabor
“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.”
– Jon Meacham
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’”
– Clare Boothe Luce
“What people don’t understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher’s wife. From Alberta down to Texas I’ve known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.”
– Robert Duvall
“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”
– Clare Boothe Luce
“I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.”
– Bell Hooks
“Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that’s very positive.”
– Theresa May
“Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.”
– Samuel Richardson
“As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.”
– Katherine Heigl
“I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I’m not a big one for the rules.”
– Katherine Heigl
“God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.”
– Adam Sandler
“Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.”
– Samuel Richardson
“It’s the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept… It’s not about age. It’s about taste, and it’s about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.”
– Ralph Lauren
“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
– Samuel Richardson
“Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don’t recognize our own beauty because we’re too busy comparing ourselves to other people.”
– Kelly Osbourne
“When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.”
– Billie Jean King
“When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I’ll be one of those women who don’t look pregnant from behind – I’ll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!”
– Katherine Heigl
“I love women more than anything.”
– Vin Diesel
“We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.”
– Margaret Cho
“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”
– Samuel Richardson
“Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.”
– Steve Buyer
“I don’t think balance is something you get from someone else it’s something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.”
– Rachel Weisz
“Why can’t all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can’t we can’t we all be considered possible love interests?”
– Margaret Cho
“Men don’t know much about women. We do know when they’re happy. We know when they’re crying, and we know when they’re pissed off. We just don’t know in what order these are gonna come at us.”
– Evan Davis
“As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.”
– Beth Ditto
“Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don’t know how much history young women today know about those battles.”
– Sandra Day O’Connor